Exhibition: A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime

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Amid the heady rebellion of London's Young British Artists, Rabble Stone, a photographer, meets the artist, a painter, after renting a room in her Brixton home. Soon Rabble is in thrall to this new world: to the run-down glamour of the Victorian house; to the exhilarating and debauched gallery openings, and to those in the artist's orbit, beautiful and lost. Above all, she is drawn to her new friend's work; raw, unfiltered self-portraits of startling intimacy, which Rabble captures in her uncompromising photographs. But as Rabble's longing tips into obsession, her pursuit of the artist - her fame, her wealth, her life - threatens to consume her.

Travelling from London to Algiers, to Berlin and New York, Exhibition is a story of love, ego and destruction, and the dark relationship between authenticity and celebrity, artist and muse.
Amid the heady rebellion of London's Young British Artists, Rabble Stone, a photographer, meets the artist, a painter, after renting a room in her Brixton home. Soon Rabble is in thrall to this new world: to the run-down glamour of the Victorian house; to the exhilarating and debauched gallery op...

About the author

ALEX HYDE is an Associate Professor at University College London. Her first novel Violets, a fictional reimagining of her father's story, was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and shortlisted for the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize. She lives with her family in South London.
ALEX HYDE is an Associate Professor at University College London. Her first novel Violets, a fictional reimagining of her father's story, was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and shortlisted for the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize. She lives with her family in South London.

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